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the only bone that touches nothing else, floating in your throat like a secret

no jointsAnchored only by muscles, articulates with no other bone
speech enablerLets the tongue and larynx move for talking
murder clueFractured hyoid often signals manual strangulation
horseshoe shapeU-shaped bone sitting at the tongue's root
evolutionary tellIts position helped humans develop complex speech
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